The Portland daily press., 1887-10-29
INDIscREET CHAMBERLAIN.
All Parties In England Excited Over
His Speeches.
President Crevy Threatens to Resign
and Reconsiders.
Randolph Churchill as Governor
General.

LONDON, Oct. 29-Ths provincial press as
sert Churchill will replace Lord Lansdowne
as Governor General of the Dominion Of
Canada next May. Lord Randolph will pay
visit to his father-in-law, Mr. Lawrence
Jerome, in New York, within short time.
and it is alleged that he will not return to
England, but spend the time intervening his
arrival in America and his assumption of the
duties of his new Office in making tour Of
the United States and Canada. The politi-
cal complications in which Lord Randolph
has become involved and his comparative
poverty are the reasons advanced for his ap-
pointment to the place, and his acceptance
as well. The possibility Of this change has
been discussed in political circles today,
and there is consensus OF opinion that the
appointment would be a good stroke for the
government as means Of getting rid OF an
incubus, and great boon to his lordship as
an avenue of escape from the embarrass-
ments incident to man who is compelled to
live beyond his means.
Magnifylng a Mole HIII.
The press throughout the country have
made an enormous spread on the Cohen case,
publishing every detail, including the Ameri-
can addresses of suspected persons, with
great minuteness. The Tory newspapers
are especially particular to impress upon the
minds or their readers the Importance of the
case, the enormity of the offence contem-
plated by the suspects, and proved by the
evioence before the coroner's jury, and the
efficiency Of the detectives in ferreting out
the would-be outrage mongers. Neverthe-
less, there have been no arrests, and this
fact strikes thinking persons as being just
the least bit incompatible with the claims of
the ministerial papers that the parties to the
alleged conspiracy are the most consummate
villains that have come into public notice
since the Phoenix Park murders. The wit
ness Hawkins and others, who certainly
ought to have been arrested if the testimony
of Detective Monro and his subordinates is
to be accepted as true, go their way unmo-
Tested, and the work of magnifying a MOLE
hill into mountain is left wholly TO the
newspapers, the whole affair being too
diaphanous for even the most uncompromis-
ing Of their Tory readers to consider seri-
ously.
The Governments Side.
The London Standard, referring to the
attacks upon Mr. Chamberlain, says: 1.-THE
Irishmen before now have found to their
cost that their aspirations willnot be allowed
to interfere with civil order in America. 1t
will be something new If another wise, salts
factory arrangement shall be restricted be-
cause it clashes with the Irish prediction.
Nor ought 1t to be forgotten that the de-
cisiOn of Americas foreign policy practically
lies with the Senate, in which Irish wire
pullers have.no overpowering influence. We
are hopeful, therefore, that Mr.. Chamberlain
will be iuccessful in his mission"
Crews Resignation.
PARIS. Oct. 2S.-President Grevy this eve
ming summoned M. Loroyer and M. Floquet,
and informed them he did not object to M.
Wilson being tried in the regular way for
any offence proyable, but he must object to a
system of blackening his son-in-law's char
acter, not only through the press, but
through the committee Of the Chambers,
embracing numerous personal enemies, rep
resenting party hatreds. Seeing the spirit
in which it had been formed, he had decided
to resign. While he thought that he enjoyed
the confidence of Parliament. nothing could
have made him take such a step but that he
was unable to remain in the Elysee with a
broke n-up family, diminished dignity and
his n-in-law on trial before an Irregular
trib.i.a which had no power except TO
M. Floquet assured the President that the
Chamber held him in undiminished respect,
ana desired him to overlook any hasty and
unconsidered actor, ,andIreconsider his decis-
lon to resign; Finally, it was arranged that
Grevy should await the report of the COM
mittee.
The Liberty Banquet.
A banquet was given tonight in celebration
of the anniversary Of the dedication of the
statue of Liberty Enhghtening the World" /"
in New York harbor. Minister McLane,
Mr. Blaine and M. de Lafayette were pres
enu. Invitations were issued in the name OF
the Count de Lesseps. Bartholdi presented
Minister McLane with medal struck in
honor Of President Cleveland and requested
him to forward it to the President.
Mr.. Blaine occupied the seat of honor on
the right of the chairman, NJ Spuller. The
latter, in proposing the health of President
Cleveland, referred to the honor done the
assembly by the presence of Messrs McLane
and Blaine, and expressed the hope that
France would walk in the footsteps of her
sister America. Mr.. McLane responded and
said that France had no cause to envy
America. He paid tribute of respect to
proposing the health of President Grevy.
What chamberlain Did Not Say.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2S.-G. w. S. telegraphs
to the Tribune from London as follows
"Chamberlain's latest reference to the Irish
in America has annoyed some of his own
friends, who think what he said is true, but
indiscreet. Others justify him on the curious
ground that the Irish cannot dislike him
more bitterly than they did before. So
stanch Unionist journal as the st. James
Gazette demonstrates against his creating
fresh difficulties for himself and his country.
New York kilograms alleging that the Irish
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regardless OF its merits or the settlement Of
the fisheries question, are readily credited
hare. What Chamberlain said, in the same
speech, respecting Canada, is perverted by
his English enemies into threat to expel
the Canadians from the empire if they adjust
their tariff to suit themselves. The author
Of this ingenious trayesty of Chamberlain s
language is the Pail Mall Gazette. That
Journal further says that Chamberlain was
no sooner appointed than he caused to be
transmitted to the American press, through
Smalley, declaration that he accepted the
post in order to establish a reconciliation be-
tween the American and the English peoples
hence Canada was to be sacrificed. This
statement is at variance with the facts. The
assertion that Chamberlain caused it to be
transmitted is not true. / contradict it be-
cause 1t misrepresents Chamberlain and
because 1t Is calculated to do mischief in
America, where the habitual preference of
the Pail Mall Gazette for fable over fact may
not be generally understood"
KrapotkIne and the Anarchists.
NEW YORK, Oct 2S.-The Herald today
prints the following from Paris:
The long letter of Prince Krapotkine, the
great Nihilistic leader, who wrote from Har-
row, Eng, to the editor of newspaper,
making stirring appeal on behalf of the
Chicago Anarchists, has made sensation in
political circles. The Figaro, the Intran-
sigeant and the Cri du Peuple all publish ex-
tracts from the letter. The prince writes /:
"The Chicago sentence indicates that the
contest going ON there Is to mark an Ameri-
can crisis more acute and brutal in form than
1t ever took in Europe. The very first pages
Of its history open with an act Of retaliation
Of the worst kind A thirst for retaliation,
and nothing else, in fact. can explain the
Chicago sentence. have carefully read the
minutes of the trial; have weighed the in
tate to affirm that parallel to that sentence
may be found in Europe only in the retalia-
tion sentences pronounced by the courts
martial after the defeat of the Paris com
mune of 1871, unless we go so far back as the
white terror Of the restored Bourbons in
1885,
To Murder Ferdinand. .e,r
SOFIA, Oct. 2S.-A Montenegrin, arrested
at Varney, confessed that Slav committee
at Odessa promised him 5000 napoleons and
good post in the Russian government if he
succeeded in organizing plot to murder
Ferdinand and NJ. Stambuloff.
Foreign Notes.
The Pope is disappointed at the failure Of